It’s actually doing what I want it to do! Finally my tinkering under the hood paid off! What a relief!! I was having nightmares about this blog. This new setup should fit on all of your screens , if it doesn’t then please throw away the commodore … umm that’s what they were called right ? Anyways here you go, if there are any questions or if you find some more bugs I would love to know. For now… I hope you can enjoy.
It seems that at some point our car began to hate us. I’m not sure what we ever did to it. Perhaps it is mad that we routinely load it to capacity and do not regularly clean it. This morning when we went out to go to work it sounded as though it was ready for take-off. All fine and good except that we hadn’t yet installed the flying feature. Upon entering the car, it became obvious that one of the fans wanted to come through the glove compartment and eat my feet. I was not particularly keen on that idea. Another peculiarity the car has taken upon itself is to randomly turn off its headlights. We will be driving along and as any polite driver, David will switch the headlights to low beam when meeting another car. SOMEtimes, when he switches them back to high beams they just disappear completely and we are left a black mass hurtling through the black night. Disconcerting.
The “play nice” portion of our blog today is brought to you by none other than the blog itself. Apparently it is still not playing nice on some of your computers. Some people are not able to leave comments, nay, even view comments. This is a very unfortunate situation. We are single handedly destroying our comment base. David is tired of messing around under the hood and I think quite possibly ready to drop-kick the computer, so version 2.0 may sooner than originally intended be replaced by 3.0. At least WE’RE going to play nice and not make people wait for upgrades for years… (and I KNOW you are sitting around waiting anxiously)
Seriously. One time I made a sculpture out of mud. I wish I had a picture of it, cause as I remember, it was pretty cool.
Baby D is ‘allowed’ to come out whenever s/he wants to now. Almost full term, according to some standards. Wouldn’t be a preemie anymore. Most of the time I’m still feeling pretty good, but the other night I told David that I didn’t think I would reach the point where I was just ready for the baby to be OUT, but I actually was that night! I was retaining more water. Right now I’m doing fine, though. We have a rather random parade of pillows going through our bed – the other night I actually piled some blankets at my head so that I could sleep at a slant and breathe better, but in the middle of the night when I got up to pee I noticed that my hands had swelled up, so I decided I should get level again. Up till now I have been sleeping with Frogbert as my leg pillow, but recently I commandeered the body pillow that David usually uses and he has been stuck with a blanket-stuffed pillow case which he is not particularly fond of… so yeah, that’s the update in that department. Oh, and Baby D is getting hiccoughs a lot more lately, sometimes it keeps me up at night. I’d say it’s about as bad as getting them myself!
Speaking of updates, I wonder if you ever realized that this blog has never had the intention of being deep or meaningful? Its purpose from the beginning has been merely to update on our lives. We have always had other blogs in the works for the more “substantial” stuff… now maybe, almost a year later, we might actually get around to starting them… we shall see…meanwhile, this is supposed to be fun and purely newsy. Thus the new look (which I wish you would all congratulate David on, cause it was all his work and the backgrounds are his pictures). Let’s keep everything in its place :-)
Let’s call it an evolution … Or a new year or something … This new theme had been long in coming and would have been here sooner if it wouldn’t have been for the lovely release of the “much acclaimed” (notice the quotation marks ,that means I’m being sarcastic, yeah fruit of pride I know..) IE7. Sadly IE7 is still the most popular browser (thanks to all you people ) so we had to accommodate but we only use it for work purposes as we had stated before firefox is about ummm 10 googolplexes better.
Now for a little tour of the theme, it’s a little more interactive than our previous one, we added a background selector so you can pick your backgrounds and enjoy some eye-candy while you get some brain-candy (from our posts). As if that wasn’t enough!!! You get some ear-candy too because that little gray box on the upper-left area is an mp3 player so you can listen to some tunes as you look at our beautiful backgrounds and read our interesting anecdotes. So enjoy, and when they start making scratch-and-sniff internet applications be sure we’ll be adding them to our blog. Enjoy…
“Torture Chamber Masquerades As Great Outdoors” “Effects Of ‘The Fall’ Descend Upon Unsuspecting Iowans” “Little Black Transporter Becomes Gypsy Wagon” “Dillers Are Hit By ‘New Stuff Overload’” “Dillers Are Blessed In Epic Proportions” “Family Is Coerced Into Posing For Picture” “Body Is Possessed By Good Year Blimp” “Exercise Increases Depression, One Lady Testifies”
Seriously. Cold weather was not in God’s perfect plan. Go back and read your Bible if you don’t believe me. He did NOT create Adam and Eve wearing clothes. Which brings me to another revelation: I guess nudist colonies would have worked in the garden of Eden. But anyone who believes they are fine now is just greatly delusional. The fall DID happen. The effects will continue until we get all new stuff. So basically, I don’t have to like cold weather any more than I like sin. It is just torture.
Speaking of new stuff… it all started a couple of months ago. New things began slowly trickling into our home. Well, in the last two weeks the trickle became more like a flood. (notice all the Bible themes here) This has been a good flood, though slightly overwhelming at times. Being on a budget, we are more accustomed to getting maybe one new thing once a month or less. Probably it is more like a couple of new things a year, considering that we are talking about REAL new things. Things like carseats and washing machines and electric woks and rice cookers and pressure cookers and iron skillets and video cameras and vacuums and approximately a bajillion and one other smaller things which are too numerous to mention here! The point is, it is quite fun to get these things, but each one does not get quite the special attention and enjoyment that it would get had it been acquired in the normal singular fashion. At least not directly upon arriving at home it does not. It did take us a while to get the inner workings of the carseat all figured out. And we actually sat around watching our new washer go through it’s whole cycle. We also swept all of our floors without emptying the vacuum so that we could marvel at the collection. By the way, some of that stuff wasn’t technically NEW, namely the kitchen stuff. The vacuum WAS wonderfully new, however, and it was made possible by Christmas money from our three grandmas. Blessed clean floors. Last night David cooked a frozen chicken in the pressure cooker and according to him it only took an hour. I only cautioned him about five times in the duration not to get blown up. (HE was the one that was originally hesitant about getting one.)
As for our little black transporter, well, it is currently carrying around quite a few older things that needed to leave to make room for the rest. It desperately hopes to be emptied tomorrow, as it is rather weary of all the clattering and squeaking that has subsequently taken over its interior.
Key words in the Dillers lives: healthier, cleaner, more organized. Oh yeah, and denial. One can not think too much about the responsibility looming ever closer, or one might just become inordinately stressed out and go slightly crazy. As it is, I’m finding it very difficult to find any motivation whatsoever to exercise because for the last six months it has had the exact opposite effect that one would hope… who knows, if it weren’t for mom exercising with me I might really BE the Good Year blimp.
Here’s another picture.
